Energy Theft
OK, great information, but here are additional questions:
1.-What's the percentage of energy being stolen?
2.-Is this percentge of stolen energy what's causing overloads in the main
electric feeding lines, which then, in turn, causes the outages?
I would assume the power companies know for sure the total consumption of Kilowatts per hour, day, month, or whatever.
Let's also assume that the theft amounts to (let's say 20%-30%) of the output. This means that the power companies get paid for only 70% to 80%
of their services. Is this the problem?
Then, I guess that the cost of this stolen energy , is charged to paying customers by the power companies, who increase prices proportionally.
This however should be very easy to know and control by these companies,
and thereby provide the correct amount of energy, taking into account the percentage of theft. I realize that there are no meters to detect the individual theft, case by case, but I'm sure these companies can and should know the amount of the total demand.
Makes sense?
I'm getting a little confused myself. LOL.
Any experts or electrical engineers, please?
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